...there is life in the wood, albeit quieter and less colourful than its human companions. Stand still, look, and listen.

Colin Williams looks back on some of the wildlife highlights from 2023

In the next in our series, volunteering administrator Wayne Brown chats to Liz Gamlin to find out what motivates her to act for nature as a volunteer for BBOWT.

"Nature is resilient and I find this grounding. No matter what is going on in the world, or in our personal lives, these trees will continue to grow and thrive as they are repeatedly coppiced…

Ecology trainee, Samantha Darley went looking for hazel dormice in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. What did she find?

"The wood becomes one again, no evidence of human intervention remains."

In the next in our series, volunteering administrator Wayne Brown chats to Kate Clayton-Hathway to find out what motivates her to act for nature as a volunteer for BBOWT.

Dave Dunleavy, ecology trainee, describes how to survey for water voles and how BBOWT's Water Vole Recovery Project has been helping them return from the brink

Chrystal Thompson looks back over a busy year as a conservation trainee with BBOWT at Greenham and Crookham Commons

Butterflies and flowers abound in the meadows of Finemere Wood